Fergusson Island

Papua New Guinea

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Photo © Tim Laman / NPL / Minden Pictures
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Photo © Tim Laman / NPL / Minden Pictures
Audio © Edwin Scholes/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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In New Guinea, the dawn chorus includes the yellow-billed kingfisher, curl-crested manucode, and Goldie’s bird-of-paradise. The bird-of-paradise family – which includes the manucode – is only found on New Guinea and a few nearby areas. Its more than three-dozen species have dazzling plumages and breeding displays.

 

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